A postcard of the James Robertson Apartment Hotel located on Seventh Avenue North and Commerce Street in downtown Nashville. Also pictured is a reproduction of Fort Nashboro, the log fort built by James Robertson, founder of Nashville, in 1779. ...
A postcard of the Sam Davis Hotel located at 132 Seventh Avenue North and corner of Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee. The 12-story, 250-room hotel named for Sam Davis, the Confederate hero, opened on Friday, 23 December 1927. The structure...
A postcard of the Sam Davis Hotel, a business property named for Sam Davis, the "Boy Hero of the Confederacy." The twelve-story building was located at the corner of 132 Seventh Avenue North at the corner of Commerce Street in downtown Nashville,...
A postcard of The Travel Lodge located on Route No. 1 at the intersection of U.S. 41 and 70 S., nine miles southeast of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This card advertises good restaurants nearby, private tile bathrooms, air cooled rooms, city...
A postcard of the Tulane Hotel, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old Nicholson House (a fancy boarding house...
A postcard of the Union Bus Terminal located at 517 Commerce Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Built in the latter part of the 1930s, this bus terminal exemplified the art deco architecture style of the time period. According to city...
A postcard showing the front elevation of the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson located twelve miles from Nashville in Hermitage, Tennessee. The architecture is colonial, the verandas are wide and long and the rooms inside are large and spacious. ...
A postcard showing the front elevation of the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson located twelve miles from Nashville in Hermitage, Tennessee. The architecture is colonial, the verandas are wide and long and the rooms inside are large and spacious. ...
A postcard showing the front elevation of the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson located twelve miles from Nashville in Hermitage, Tennessee. The architecture is colonial, the verandas are wide and long and the rooms inside are large and spacious. ...
A postcard showing the hustle and bustle of Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1940. Pedestrians line the sidewalks, while the streets are busy with vehicles, including the Cedar - Jo Johnston bus. During the Great Depression and World...
A souvenir postcard of Tennessee that labels nineteen major cities within the state. Accompanying cartoon renderings depict specific items of interest for different areas of Tennessee. Some highlighted items include: The Hermitage, the Parthenon...
A souvenir postcard sending greetings from Nashville, Tennessee. Several attractions are depicted inside the block letters of Nashville. From left to right they are: Sam Davis Monument, War Memorial Building, Memorial Square, the Hermitage,...
A souvenir postcard sending greetings from Nashville, Tennessee. Several attractions are depicted inside the block letters of Nashville. From left to right they are: Sam Davis Monument, War Memorial Building, Memorial Square, the Hermitage,...
A twenty-two page pamphlet put out by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of enticing business owners to locate their businesses in Nashville. Content includes statistics on population, economy, business, transportation, taxes, cost...
An aerial photograph of downtown Nashville, photographed for The Nashville Banner, by photographer John Morgan circa 1954. The view includes the urban landscape from the area adjacent to the Tennessee State Capitol building, south to Demonbreun...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Jim Alcott, conducted on 3 October 2007 by his friend and business partner Rebecca Whitney at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 09 February 1981 and the 13 February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Avery, the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...